This statement "“Typically in engineering, the safety factor is honestly one-and-a-half or two times that,” Sahba said" bothered me. The reason there are safety factors are because things go wrong that you can't account for (fatigue, corrosion, manufacturing defects, etc). The point is that you end up building something that can withstand 200 but you only rate it for 100 because of those unknown factors; you don;t get to retroactively say "it's good for 200 because of factors of safety".
This groundwater pollutant and recreational space issue, to me, ends up being a bigger issue than the flood plain discussion in earlier posts. Combine the two, though, and the potential for mass contamination of downstream residential property. This is a big deal, Molly.
Was walking along the west bank by the old kayak ramp on levee C and saw pools of oily sheen and small springs of ground water coming from the banks and feeding the pools along the bank. Took a few phone photos.
Not sure of any caps south of the dam around the power plant.
Thank You Molly! This information is core in setting a new cultural shift in dealing with the skeletons in the closet in just one river in Oklahoma. My grandparents moved to Tulsa, OK in 1924 and my cherokee ancestry from my father’s side of the family puts those ancestors in Indian Territory in 1840. There is a point when we can’t move forward in building a healthier environment for future generations until we take inventory on the hard facts of how bad something might be and except the process of moving forward to deal with and repair. Leave things better than you found them.
This statement "“Typically in engineering, the safety factor is honestly one-and-a-half or two times that,” Sahba said" bothered me. The reason there are safety factors are because things go wrong that you can't account for (fatigue, corrosion, manufacturing defects, etc). The point is that you end up building something that can withstand 200 but you only rate it for 100 because of those unknown factors; you don;t get to retroactively say "it's good for 200 because of factors of safety".
This groundwater pollutant and recreational space issue, to me, ends up being a bigger issue than the flood plain discussion in earlier posts. Combine the two, though, and the potential for mass contamination of downstream residential property. This is a big deal, Molly.
Was walking along the west bank by the old kayak ramp on levee C and saw pools of oily sheen and small springs of ground water coming from the banks and feeding the pools along the bank. Took a few phone photos.
Not sure of any caps south of the dam around the power plant.
Thank You Molly! This information is core in setting a new cultural shift in dealing with the skeletons in the closet in just one river in Oklahoma. My grandparents moved to Tulsa, OK in 1924 and my cherokee ancestry from my father’s side of the family puts those ancestors in Indian Territory in 1840. There is a point when we can’t move forward in building a healthier environment for future generations until we take inventory on the hard facts of how bad something might be and except the process of moving forward to deal with and repair. Leave things better than you found them.